WEDNESDAY
Boys’ tennis
PAL finals set
The top two seeds in both the singles and doubles brackets advanced to the finals of the Peninsula Athletic League individual tournament.
In singles play, top-seeded Thomas Reznik of Carlmont will face Menlo-Atherton’s and No. 2 seed Tim Berthier in the title match at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at Burlingame. Reznik cruised past Burlingame’s Cale Goodman, the No. 8 seed, 6-1, 6-1 in the quarterfinals and then beat M-A’s Cole Hagerman, the No. 4 seed, 6-2, 6-2 in the semifinals.
Berthier advanced to the semifinals after a quarterfinal default from San Mateo’s Nicholas Chu because of illness. In the semifinals, Berthier was pushed, needing three sets to dispatch No. 3 seed Milad Shafaie from Carlmont, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Shafaie and Hagerman will meet in the third-place match that will be played concurrently with the finals.
On the doubles side, the top-seeded duo from Woodside, Levi Vigdorchik and Alex Kastelein, needed to win a tiebreaker in both its wins, but won both in straight sets. They opened the day with a 7-6(1), 6-2 win over Evan Mahaffey and Oliver Nix of Burlingame in the quarterfinals. They advanced to the title match with a 6-2, 7-6(1) win over the M-A duo of Zach Ostrow and Maxim Jukic.
The No. 2 seed of Jeffrey Jorgensen and Jake Andrew of M-A will face the Woodside tandem in the finals. Jorgensen and Andrew had much more routine wins in the quarters and semis, winning 6-3, 6-3 and 6-1, 6-4, respectively.
Ostrow and Jukic will face the Aragon tandem of Rithik Booreddy and Ilan Leventhal in the third-place doubles match.
Girls’ lacrosse
Menlo-Atherton 6, University-SF 5
Theresa McGannon scored in overtime to lift the Bears over the Red Devils in a non-league match in San Francisco.
Annie Payne and Leiney Paul each scored twice for M-A is regulation, with Izzy Carhart rounding out the scoring for the Bears.
TUESDAY
Softball
Carlmont 4, Aragon 1
Mailey McLemore improved to 8-0 in PAL play as she limited the Dons to just one run on three hits as the Scots stayed unbeaten in Bay Division play.
McLemore also contributed two hits, including a triple, and two RBIs to help lead the offense for Carlmont (10-0 PAL Bay, 17-1 overall). Ashley Trierweiler also drove in a run for the Scots.
San Mateo 8, Sequoia 0
Sage Hager and Kylie Galea combined to scatter four hits and strike out six to help lead the Bearcats to the Bay Division victory over the Cherokees.
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Izzy Borges paced the offensive attack for San Mateo (5-6 PAL Bay, 7-7 overall), which finished with 12 hits. Borges had three hits, three RBIs and scored twice, while Jada Walker also had three hits and drove in two runs. She also scored twice.
Sequoia dropped to 0-11 in Bay Division play and is just 1-14 overall this season.
Boys’ golf
Harker 175, Sacred Heart Prep 185
The Eagles stayed in the running for the West Bay Athletic League title with the win over the Gators at Los Lagos Golf Club.
Luke Peterson’s 1-over 35 led SHP (5-4 WBAL, 5-6 overall), which had all five of its scorers shoot sub-40 rounds. Finn O’Kelly came in with a 36 and Anikait Bhardwaj finished with a 37. Anderson Page and Brad Oliver shot 38 and 39, respectively.
Low round of the day went to Daulet Tuluebayev of Harker (8-1) who shot a 4-under 30.
Girls’ lacrosse
Menlo School 9, Sacred Heart Prep 8
The Knights stayed in first place in the WBAL with a crucial victory over the rival Gators.
Alyssa Sahami’s last-second save, her fifth of the game, preserved the win for Menlo (8-1 WBAL). Sophie Scola led the Knights’ offense with a hat trick, while Abby Wolfenden and Charlotte Swisher each added two goals apiece.
SHP (7-2) was led by Allison Carter, who finished with three goals.
College baseball
San Mateo 7, Mission-Santa Clara 6
The Bulldogs pulled into a first-place tie for the conference lead with the Saints in the penultimate game of the regular season.
The two will meet again today at 2:30 p.m. in Santa Clara with the winner taking the Golden Gate Conference championship.
Nick Knecht’s solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning gave CSM (13-6 GG Conference, 26-12 overall) an important insurance run and one that turned out to be the game winner as Mission (13-6, 24-14) scored three times in the top of the ninth, but could not push across the tying run.
CSM took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second on a two-run single from Keolu Ramos and an RBI single from Kevin Jordan.
It was 4-0 in the third after Jordan tripled to drive in Angelo Bortolin.
Mission got on the board with a two-run homer from Blake Diggle and a solo shot from Josh Lauck in the fifth to close to 4-3.
A two-run single from Bortolin gave the Bulldogs some breathing room, at 6-3, before Knecht’s key homer in the eighth.
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